Last Saturday for Auburndale Village Day, the neighborhood had great weather, crowds strolling up and down Lexington and Auburn Streets, violin serenades, sidewalk art, activities in and around the Auburndale Community Library, and surprise offers from local businesses. A fine link in the chain of Newton’s Village Days, following Waban,…
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The Auburndale Neighborhood Association invites Newton residents to Auburndale Village Day on Saturday, August 27, 10AM-Noon. Auburndale’s stores and restaurants will hold sales and special promotions, while the Auburndale Community Library will be the center of activity for family-friendly activities and music. The event features sidewalk sales, meal promotions, family portraits, sidewalk art,…
The Newton Cultural Alliance will launch its Friday Night Folk series at The Allen Center (35 Webster Street, West Newton) with a concert by The Black Feathers on September 9: refreshments outdoors at 6:30PM, concert indoors at 7:30PM. Tickets are $25.
Hankus Netsky & Janice Octavia Allen will kick off Newton Community Pride’s Fall Concert Series on September 11 at 3PM with a free concert at the Austin Street Plaza in Newtonville. If you were wowed by their recent performance at the Linda Plaut Festival of the Arts — or if you missed it…
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation will hold a live, virtual public hearing about the project called Newton-Weston Bridge Bundle, Replacement and Rehabilitation at I-90/I-95, Including Ramp G on August 18, 6PM-8PM. Register here to receive the online link. MassDOT will present the design for the project and to solicit comments.
Last Sunday, the Love Dogs rock band was the final act in Newton’s series of six summer concerts on Sunday evenings in Newton Centre. An enthusiastic audience of 300 — the largest audience in the series — attended this concert. Paula Gannon, Director of Newton Cultural Affairs, noted that the first four…
The Woman’s Club of Newton Highlands was formed in 1917, and it’s now the only one remaining among many such charitable and social clubs across the villages of Newton a century ago. Club members still meet (on the first and third Wednesdays of the month) at its Workshop, a one-story…
The Newton Upper Falls Area Council will meet virtually (Zoom link) on Thursday, August 18 at 7PM. The agenda will include discussion of a Joint Area Council Letter on the Zoning and Planning Committee’s Village Center Framework, discussion regarding a Joint Area Council meeting and presentation on Zoning scheduled for…
High up on a hill overlooking the area where Otis Pettee established the Saco Pettee Machine Shop sits one of the most important properties of Upper Falls history — the Otis Pettee Sunnyside House, at 277 Elliot Street. Now the centerpiece of The Stone Institute, the building will be up…
At 3PM each day, August 8-12, Louise Ting, a rising 2nd grader in Newton, will play a short concert of music by Mozart and Tchaikovsky at one of the Artful Pianos installed in various parks in Newton. Louise has just returned from a competition in Europe, and you can hear…